According to the British media "Financial Times" reported on December 31, Musk in an interview with the newspaper, refuted the starlink satellite occupies too much space space. Musk said that the space in the universe is extremely vast, beyond human imagination. Satellites are very small in this space, just a grain of sand on Miami Beach. We don't, and don't want to block, anyone from doing anything, and the opportunities for the development of the universe are fair.
But in fact, musk's starlink satellites are constantly "causing trouble" in outer space. According to the information released on the website of the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs, the Permanent Mission of China to the United Nations has submitted a note verbale indicating that the Starlink satellite of the US Space Exploration Corporation has twice approached the "Tiangong" space station. Moreover, at that time, there were Chinese astronauts in the space station carrying out normal operations, in order to protect the safety of astronauts' lives, the Tiangong space station twice made emergency evasion actions.
And the bad deeds of the Starlink satellites are not only that, even the European Space Agency has been asking the United States to take care of the "bear child" of the space exploration company. At present, space exploration companies have launched 2,000 satellites into space, and these satellites are like "small killers" that have become unstable factors in space at any time. In 2019, a Starlink satellite nearly crashed into the European Space Agency's "Fengshen" meteorological satellite during an experiment to try automatic deorbiting technology. In April, a Starlink satellite nearly smashed a British communications satellite. According to research from the University of Southampton in the United Kingdom, since the launch of the Starlink satellites, the number of close events in space has more than doubled, and if 40,000 Satellites are planned to be launched, then 90% of the world's satellites will encounter the threat of collision.
However, while the Starlink satellites have created so many "dangers," Musk has also argued that there is enough space in low-Earth orbit to accommodate the threat, and his plans will not affect other spacecraft. At the same time, it also said that each orbiting shell around the earth in space can accommodate enough satellites, which is not a question of the number of satellites, but a problem of "traffic management" in space. Broadly speaking, there is nothing wrong with Musk's words, but this is not the case in the actual situation. American astronomer Jonathan pointed out that because the spacecraft is flying very fast, if you need to meet the 3-second circumvention time limit, each orbital shell can only accommodate 1,000 satellites, then if the 40,000 satellites of the Space Exploration Company are all online, then it will occupy 40 orbital shells.
And more importantly, is Musk's Starlink satellite a company's business practice? Or is it the military conduct of the U.S. government? This is also an important factor to consider. Think of the "Star Wars" plan advocated by the United States during the peak of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union, that is, how to destroy various Soviet satellites in space. This time, the Starlink satellite that tried to collide with the Tiangong space station was originally flying at an altitude of 555 kilometers, why did it drop to the position of the Tiangong space station at an altitude of 370 kilometers, musk did not need to stand up and explain?
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said that the action of the Starlink satellite to threaten the life safety of the sky space station and Chinese astronauts this time is a typical irresponsible attitude, and the United States claims that the so-called "outer space is responsible" is an outright lie. Ignoring the restrictions of international treaties in outer space and hindering the development of scientific and technological undertakings in outer space by other countries is a typical double-standard behavior.